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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will check that. Before Deputy Ó Broin comes in, regarding the deletion of that section, we will have to look at what consequences might arise from the deletion of that amendment. If we were to replace it with something suggested by the Deputy, that is fine. We need to look at what that potentially would be replaced with, or added to in a new subsection. That is the issue I need to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is why I cannot accept its deletion today.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We will check that. We might have an answer.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Is it okay if I answer that? For the record, page 68 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 states that the preservation of any existing public right of way, including, in particular, rights of way which give access to seashore, mountain, lakeshore, riverbank or other place of natural beauty or recreational utility with public rights of way should be identified both by marking them on at...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, it is a "shall".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Is the Deputy talking about section 17?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is in the current Act. It is a transposition.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is a transposition. It basically reads a copy of or part of a planned strategy or statement made under this Part and certified by an officer. It can be used as evidence in a case and it details what that is in the case of the national planning framework or the national planning statement. It outlines it pretty clearly.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is section 17 in the current Planning and Development 2000.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Section 18, which deals with regulations, replaces 4 sections of the current Act - sections 10, 13, 19 and 23, so it is not a new provision. It is a transposition. The Minister may for the purposes of giving further effect to the SEA Directive by regulations in the Act referred to as strategic environmental assessments may make further provision for the application of the directive to any...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Amendment No. 130 seeks to replace section 19(2)(a) which outlines the first key objective of the national planning framework, including policies and proposals for: (a) securing national and regional development strategies, including maximising the potential of the regions; (b) supporting proper planning and sustainable development in urban and rural areas; In place of the above, the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: In your opinion; I do not misunderstand it at all but carry on.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: All right.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I fully understand what is being put forward. There is a bit of hair splitting in this but let me try to be helpful. This is a question with which we go way back to the start of committee where we have the amendment on the Long Title of the Bill that will be taken last for procedural reasons. For the information of Deputies, it might help on this that the Long Title will be changed to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: You did not.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I would just make a general point -----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We could have a general housing discussion and I would disagree with most of what Deputy Ó Broin said about progress. I met representatives of the Irish Green Building Council. With regard to the MMC programme framework that is being led by the local authorities, I visit sites regularly looking at the very best of sustainable product. With regard to cross-laminated timber, I met those...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Was it in the development plan?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Let us take France as an example. France’s social housing delivery, per capita, it is way behind what we are doing. Out of 19 surveyed European countries, it is way behind. Out of 19 European countries surveyed, we are the only ones last year and this year where construction was to grow. We are not laggards in delivery.